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Okay, so worrisome new development, the pc now appears officially dead. Won't post, no indication of power - dead. Left it overnight, seemed fine, downloaded some games for testing, and they completed. Turned around to grab something, pc off when I came back. Won't boot back up. Unplugged & replugged, reset cmos, nothing, but an audiple *ping* or click from the PSU every time I try to boot. Decided that probably meant "stop doing that" and unplugged it. The PSU is brand new and showed no issues. There's no burning smell nor can I spot anything of the sort. Anyone experienced this before? I'm thinking dead cpu now for sure, but I might be wrong...

That would be Digital Audio yes, which only needs usb support, the above would still apply to realtek and 3.5mm jacks. Additionally if trying to plug into your cases audio ports (so not the ones on the back of the motherboard), remember that you need to connect those to your motherboard as well.

Your new motherboard has new audio components that windows probably doesn't know how to use, you need to install drivers for them. You should be able to find them on the website of your motherboard vendor, if not you can look for your specific audio device from its manufacturer or elsewhere. On a side note, windows can have issues if you replace mobo and cpu like that. You may have more issues with drivers and possibly your windows activation. If you get more issues, I would recommend considering a clean installation.

It can be, but often there will also be an alphanumeric code, looking something like this: 0x00000EF or 0xc0000359. If you get one that could be helpful, if not that's fine. Was there any reason you were reseating your RAM? If you were looking to fix another issue, it may be relevant to the current issue. Check if your ram didn't get dirty and all the pins/contacts look fine. You could try cleaning it with 99% isopropyl alcohol to be safe (careful, can dissolve the glue from the stickers lol) or an oldschool method I used to see is using an eraser to rub off grime. Check the slots too. Make sure the RAM is really seated correctly, it should be all the way in, it's not uncommon for it to require some force, and the mechanism on many boards will give an audible click. You can usually tell by the position of the release switch/hinge. Finally, most motherboards actually have a preferred slot for RAM, check your mobo manual for yours. It can work without, and you can definitely test different configurations, but there definitely is a "best" one. Check if you may have disconnected or unseated anything else while working on the RAM. Many boards will have some power cables near it, as well as USB and Sata (hard drive), though yours may vary. If you disconnected the power or a harddrive, it could prevent you from booting. Other things could too, these are just nearby and likely.

Sounds like an issue with either the mobo/bios or the software to me too, if it fails on multiple pens but not the harddrive. It COULD be the SSD, but we're not there yet. First, make sure your installation media is good: - Make sure the pendrive is known to work, and is large enough to contain the full windows 10 installation media (officially 4GB, but a little bit extra would be safe, so 6 or 8 GB) - Create a bootable drive using the tool found here || https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/15088/windows-10-create-installation-media || the tool will both download the required files and ready the drive to use for installation, should be easy, make sure its empty, all files on it will be lost. - Make sure you've set legacy USB support as mentioned above and check for any other usb settings relevant to your mobo - Make sure you've got the boot order set correctly, the bios will otherwise boot from whatever other drive comes first, possibly a damaged one you're trying to reinstall onto? - Some motherboards only allow USB booting from specific usb ports. Usually this is the one all the way at the top next to the PS/2 port (oldschool mouse/keyboard) but may vary by manufacturer and model, check for yours. And if applicable, use that port. if all this fails, I would ask when the bsod occurs, does it happen right away, or can you access the windows installation's first steps? If not, I would suspect your boot order is wrong and the issue isnt with the installation itself. otherwise: If you get into the installation but the bsod's occur afterwards or during, the ssd might be bad. Is it new? see if you can manage the installation in another system, or otherwise, install windows on this system but onto another harddrive. Good luck!

Which ones should I be looking at first? chipset is fresh and straight from AMD, the rest is stock and device manager isn't reporting anything missing or malfunctioning, so it'd be a lot of work to manually replace every single driver, especially with the shutdowns being unreliable to reproduce.

This ones been haunting me for a while, time to call in the cavalry. I built a new system, Ryzen 3600 all new parts save the PSU and it seemed fine at first, but when I started gaming and testing I got random freezes and then restarts (not always together). The restarts happened suddenly and occur during idle too, reproduction is not guaranteed, but sustained load or 24 hours of idle almost always do it. Sounds vague? I thought so too! There's no BSOD or error notification to go off of, and event viewer hasn't shown me anything useful other than event id#41 (unexpected shutdown, duh) without further details, though it's not my strongest area. I tried a lot of testing and settings, power management, drivers etc, nothing. I gave up for a while and have just replaced the PSU with a new, more powerful one, no dice. Just did a complete reset of everything, updated bios, cleared cmos, default everything, including RAM speed (single stick for testing), formatted the drive, clean windows, the whole 9 yards. An hour into the install while casually downloading drivers and installing them, bam! pc blacks out and restarts (no ongoing installations, not a part of that). Only things I had installed by that point were Firefox, the AMD chipset driver and Geforce experience (hadn't logged in yet, was resetting the password when it happened). Another possibility is the ram, but no configuration I've tried so far has made a difference and memory tests haven't given me anything conclusive though I'm willing to try again. I've swapped out the GPU with my working system's GTX 760, no difference and the 2070 works fine in the other rig. The old PSU also had no issues in the pre-existing system but I replaced it because it was kinda old anyway and seemed the most likely culprit for random shutdowns, did not help unfortunately Anyone have any ideas what this could be or how I could continue troubleshooting this? I'm suspecting a bad mobo or cpu at this point, but if possible i'd like to narrow it down before forking out more money. I can provide logs if you can point me towards them. - Windows 10 Professional - AMD Ryzen 5 3600 - stock cooler - Crucial ballistix 8GB DDR4-3200 RAM (4x8) - MSI X570 Gaming Edge Wifi - Nvidia RTX 2070 Super - Seagate FireCuda 510 1TB SSD - Corsair RM750x (formerly Corsair RM650) - Cooler master storm trooper case

Thanks for all the replies guys, I actually like most of the parts the way they are (didn't pick them at random after all) but I'll definitely check your suggestions out and look at my options for maybe getting a 770 instead. Any other suggestions for cases are also still welcome!

Alright, so after having been without a proper PC for years now, I've finally gathered enough money and decided to build myself a brand new gaming PC. I've been doing a lot of reading, and Linus has been a huge help on youtube too, and I'm nearly done except for some small details that I will mention while going over the list of parts. Any advice on those, and on the rig in general would be awesome! 1. Budget & Location I live in the Netherlands, so budget will be in Euro's and is around €1200. This will be including an OS and a new monitor, so the hardware needs to stick to probably around €900-€1000. 2. Aim I'll be using this, obviously, for gaming, as well as my regular day to day things and school work. Games are fairly varied, from a lot of old games and minecraft to League of Legends, Skyrim and some newer FPS games, preferably on as high graphics as my money can get, the usual. I don't expect to be doing any serious video editing or Photoshop on it, so no worries there. 3. Monitors My current rig is.... old. So i'll be getting a new monitor so I can truly enjoy the graphics I'll be getting. My favorite so far is the 24" BenQ RL2455HM. No concrete plans for more monitors right now, though I may try hooking up my current Hp Pavilion f1723 to keep things like chats or something else open while gaming fullscreen on my main monitor. Options for expansion are nice, but I'm on a budget, so no rush there. 4. Peripherals I'm going to need a new OS for the system, which is going to be windows 8.1. Mouse and keyboard and everything else will do for now. 5. Why are you upgrading? Current PC makes me die a little inside every day, it gets stuck for minutes if I type too fast. Also, it still runs on XP, and also I've wanted a real gaming rig for years now So, speclist: Monitor: 24" BenQ RL2455HM Case: - Motherboard: Msi Z87-G45 Cpu: Intel i5 4670K cpu cooler: stock RAM: - GPU: Msi GTX 760 "gaming" 2Gd5/OC PSU: corsair RM650 SSD: Crucial M500 240GB HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14,2 TB OS: windows 8.1 Missing, obviously, are the case and ram, I'm having a bit of trouble picking those, so suggestions are very welcome, the RAM should be a 2x4GB 1600Mhz low latency set that looks nice in the build (mostly red and black) The case needs to have a window, good cable management, proper cooling, usb 3 internal, etc Some cases that have caught my attention where the cm storm series, the zalman z11 plus, and the cooler master 690 III, but I'm having a really hard time choosing, so please help!